 | 1880 - 208 pages
...eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. XII.—USES OF THE FLOWERS. GOD might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small,— The oak-tree and the cedar-tree Without a flower at all. Our outward life requires them not,— Then wherefore... | |
 | State Pomological Society of Michigan - 1880 - 518 pages
...of His beneficence dwell, and bear on their fragrant wings and graceful forms His goodness and love. "God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The onk tree and the cedar tree Without a flower at all; We might have had enough, enough For every want... | |
 | Frederick Harper - 1881 - 390 pages
...of His care, Ever suffer'd shipwreck there ! 2. Wild-flowers teach God's love. As Mary Howitt sings, God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for...tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. Or, He might have made only one or two flowers, instead of which it has been reckoned there are 80,000... | |
 | 1881 - 1060 pages
...before the counties south stop the enterprise, by stocking the markets. PLANTS. God might have bade the earth bring forth, Enough for great and small,...tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours: For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have... | |
 | London readers - 1881 - 140 pages
...roots or seeds still live, and in another spring they will again rise to give us fresh delight. 10. " God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak-tree and the cedar-tree, "Without a flower at all. 11. " Our outward life requires them not; Then,... | |
 | 1881 - 880 pages
...works of His own hands. Flowers speak to us of God's benevolence. He creates them for our delight. He might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small ; The sturdy oak and cedar tree, Without a flower at all. Geologists tell us that there are few traces of... | |
 | 1882 - 408 pages
...would be without them. Mary Howitt expresses our own thoughts, as true poets ever do, when she says: "God might have made the earth bring forth Enough...oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all ; He might have made enough — enough For every want of ours, For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1882 - 364 pages
...read a paper written by Mrs. EV Richmond, of Appleton, on THE BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE IN AMERICAN HOMES. " God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for...great and small, The oak tree, and the cedar tree, And not a flower at all." But instead He has painted the very weeds at our feet so gorgeously that... | |
 | Benjamin Waugh - 1882 - 408 pages
...of His pitying love. GOD OUR DEFENDER. SERVICE XIV. HYMN. God might have made the earth bringforth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree Without a flower at all. He might have made enough — enough For every want of ours, For food and medicine and toil, And yet... | |
 | 1883 - 162 pages
...care ; Active-patient be. Too much gladness brings to gloom Those who on the gods presume. Leigh Hunt. THE USE OF FLOWERS. GOD might have made the earth...tree, and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough For every want of ours ; For luxury, medicine, and toil, And yet... | |
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God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree, Without a flower at all. 
